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Reception Ĭritical reception for La Llorona has been positive. On 6 August 2020, the film premiered on the horror streaming service Shudder. It was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, making the shortlist of 15 films. La Llorona had its world premiere on 30 August 2019 at the Venice Film Festival (Giornate degli Autori) and later screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. A distraught Carmen strangles Enrique in the trance and in reality.Īt Enrique's funeral, another old general excuses to the bathroom where he hears a woman wailing as the room begins to flood. Carmen goes into a trance as she is transported back to the nightmare, which are revealed to be Alma's last moments, watching her children drowned by soldiers before being executed herself by Enrique. Valeriana performs a Mayan ceremony while a woman's wailing can be heard. As he searches around the house, Letona encounters the spirits of two Kaqchikel children who calmly take him away and is not seen again. The house is surrounded by the spirits of the disappeared. Terrified, Enrique starts shooting Alma while accidentally shooting Sara in the arm. Later that night Sara uses her grandfather’s oxygen cylinder to hold her breath longer under the pool. Valeriana suspects dark magic is at work and attempts to cleanse Enrique of the evil spirit. Suspicion growns into Valeriana when she reveals to Alma that nobody in her village appears to know her. The house is blanketed with flyers of the disappeared from decades earlier Sara and Alma notice one of the Kaqchikel men on the flyers is among the crowd of protesters. Carmen wets the bed during recurring nightmares where she pictures herself as a Kaqchikel woman being chased and abducted with two Kaqchikel children by the military. The protests continue around the clock, leaving the family essentially trapped in the house. Alma teaches Sara to hold her breath under water. However, Natalia learns from Sara that even though she is very young, Alma already had a son and daughter who died. His disgusted wife tells Natalia that he was always attracted to native women and reveals her suspicions that Valeriana, who arrived at their household as a child, may be Enrique's daughter. One night Enrique sees Alma wading through the pool into the house his family discovers him, sexually aroused, watching her wash her dress.
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Supernatural activity involving water, including faucets spontaneously turning on, ensues. His devoted housekeeper, Valeriana, brings in a young woman named Alma from her village to work as a maid. This leads to most of his household staff - who are ethnic Kaqchikel people - quitting. The decision is met with disgust and unrest by the public, who hold nonstop protests outside the Monteverde home.Įnrique's sleep is interrupted by the sound of a woman weeping and he narrowly misses shooting his wife in the kitchen.
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He is convicted but the verdict is overturned by the high court, which ruled that his guilt could not be conclusively proven.
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During the trial, Natalia is troubled by the indigenous women who describe being brutalized by General Monteverde's army, while Carmen dismisses them as liars. Now elderly, he lives with his wife, Carmen daughter, Natalia granddaughter, Sara and their security guard, Letona. Former Guatemalan dictator Enrique Monteverde (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) is being tried for orchestrating the brutal genocide of native Mayans in 1982–83.